Modifying a squashfs,

Question

Obviously, I don't want to actually modify a squashfs. What I would like to do though is take an existing squashfs, a set of files and create a new squashfs which is identical to the old one except that the files in the set either replace similar files in the squasfs or are just added if there is no similar files.

OK, that last part sounded weird. So let me give an example:

There is a squashfs called mfs.squash. Inside it there is a file ./a/foo. I want to create a new squashfs which is identical to the old squashfs – except that there is a new file a/b and I overwrite the ./a/foo with one of my specification.

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '11 at 12:21

11

Mount the squashfs:

mkdir /mnt/squishy
mount mfs.sqash /mnt/squishy -t squashfs -o loop

Copy the squashfs to another place:

mkdir /tmp/squooshtacular
find /mnt/squishy -xdev -print0 | cpio -pa0V /tmp/squooshtacular

Copy the new files into place:

cp ./a.foo /tmp/squooshtacular/a.foo

Make the new squashfs:

mksquashfs /tmp/squooshtacular mfs_with_bbq_sauce.squash

answered Mar 09 '11 at 12:21

Shawn J. Goff

45,338
25
134
145

3

I think this should read: `find /mnt/squishy -xdev -print0 | cpio -pd0V /tmp/squooshtacular` – fpmurphy Jun 30 '11 at 22:15
@fpmurphy Why? `-d` isn't necessary since `find` is producing all the directory names, and there's no reason to remove `-a`. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jun 30 '11 at 23:46
3

Did not work for me without the -d option – fpmurphy Jul 01 '11 at 02:42

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 07 '17 at 12:14

1

you can append new_or_modified files_dir on a squashfs_file without unsquash nor cpio mounted_squashfs as above. See the detailed response at:

Append to sub-directory inside squashfs file

edited Nov 07 '17 at 12:14

Jeff Schaller

66,199
35
114
250

answered Nov 07 '17 at 11:38

user3477652

31
3

Modifying a squashfs,

2 Answers2